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Scientific Publications
R. Geeta, L. M. Dávalos, A. Levy,
L. Bohs, M. Lavin, K. Mummenhoff, N. Sinha and M. F. Wojciechowski.
(in press) Keeping it simple: Fowering plants tend to retain,
and revert to, simple leaves. New Phytologist DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03951.x 
Levy, A., Wirtz, P., Floeter, S. R., Almada,
V. C. 2011. The Lusitania Province as a center of diversification:
The phylogeny of the genus Microlipophrys (Pisces:
Blenniidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 409–413.
Levy, A. 2010. Pattern, process and the
evolution of meaning: species and units of selection. Theory
in Biosciences. 129: 159-166.DOI:
10.1007/s12064-010-0092-x – Impact
Factor: 1.703 (2008).
Almada, V. C. , Robalo, J.I., Levy, A.,
Freyhof, J., Bernardi, G, Doadrio, I. 2009. Phylogenetic analysis
of Peri-Mediterranean blennies of the genus Salaria:
Molecular insights on the colonization of freshwaters. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 424–431. –
Impact factor: 3.99 (2008)
Almada, V. C., Robalo, J. I., Gonçalves, E. J., Levy,
A. and Patzner, R. A. (2009). Blennies in Temperate
Seas. In The Biology of Blennies. Patzner, R.A., Gonçalves,
E. J., Hastings, P., and Kapoor, B.G. (Eds.). Science Publishers,
Enfield, NH.
Levy, A., I. Doadrio, V.C. Almada. 2008.
Historical biogeography of European leuciscins (Cyprinidae):
evaluating the Lago Mare dispersal hypothesis. 2009. Journal
of Biogeography 36(1): 55-65. –
Impact Factor: 4.566 (2008)
Levy, A., Carrapiço, F, Abreu, H.,
Pina, M. (eds.) 2009. Evolução: Conceitos e
Debates. Esfera do Caos, Lisboa, Portugal.
Pigliucci, M., Levy, A. 2009. Uma síntese
evolutiva expandida. in Evolução: Conceitos
e Debates. Edited by Levy, A., Carrapiço, F, Abreu,
H., Pina, M. 2008. Esfera do Caos, Lisboa, Portugal.
Levy, A., Carrapiço, F, Abreu, H.,
Pina, M. (eds.) 2008. Evolução: História
e Argumentos. Esfera do Caos, Lisboa, Portugal.
Levy, A. 2008. Evolução agora.
in Evolução: História e Argumentos. in
Levy, A., Carrapiço, F, Abreu, H., Pina, M. (eds.)
2008. Esfera do Caos, Lisboa, Portugal.
Almada, F., Henriques, M., Levy, A., Pereira,
A., Robalo, J. & Almada, V.C. 2008. Reclassification of
Lepadogaster candollei based on molecular and meristic
evidence with a redefinition of the genus Lepadogaster.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 1151-1156.
Francisco, S.M., Congiu, L., Stefanni, S., Castilho, R.,
Brito, R., Ivanova, P.P., Levy, A., Cabral,
H., Kilias, G., Doadrio, I. & Almada, V.C. 2008. Phylogenetic
relationships of the North-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean
forms of Atherina (Pisces, Atherinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 48: 782-788.
Almada, V.C., Pereira, A.M., Fonseca, J.P., Levy,
A., Maia, C., Valente, A. 2008. Mitochondrial DNA
fails to reveal genetic structure in sea-lampreys along European
shores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46:391-396.
Robalo, J.I., V.C. Almada, A. Levy, I. Doadrio.
2007. Re-examination and phylogeny of the genus Chondrostoma
based on mitochondrial and nuclear data and the definition
of 5 new genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 42:
362–372.
Robalo, J.I., C. Sousa-Santos, A. Levy &
V.C. Almada. 2006. Molecular insights on the taxonomic position
of the paternal ancestor of the Squalius alburnoides
hybridogenetic complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
39(1): 276-281.
Gassmann, A. J., A. Levy, T. Tran, and D.
J. Futuyma. 2006. Adaptations of an insect to a novel host
plant: a phylogenetic approach. Functional Ecology 20:478-485.
Levy, A. 2004. The Overcrowded Stage and the Evolutionary
Play: Resistance of Brassica rapa L. (Brassicaceae) to Multiple
Enemies. PhD Dissertation in Ecology and Evolution. Stony
Brook University, New York, USA.
Futuyma, D.J. and A. Levy. 2000. Coevolution.
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Simon Levin (ed.). Academic
Press.
Geeta R, Levy A., Hoch JM, and M. Mark. 2004. Taxonomists
and the CBD. Science 305 (5687): 1105.
Matos, M., C. Rego, A. Levy, H. Teotonio,
and M.R. Rose. 2000. An evolutionary no man's land. Trends
in Ecology and Evolution 15:206.
Knowles, L.L., A. Levy, J.M. McNellis, K.P.
Greene, and D.J. Futuyma. 1999. Tests of inbreeding effects
on host-shift potential in the phytophagous beetle Ophraella
communa. Evolution 53:561-567. |
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Recent Science Outreach/Communication of Science to the General
Public
2011
– «Development and Evolution: the relationshop
between phenotype and genotype» and »Evolutionary
Biology today: the advances of Darwin in the modern context»
- lectures at Romeu Correia Hogh School, Feijó, Jan
17th
– «Evolution Today», lecture at Rainha Dona
Amélia High School, Lisbon, March 2nd.
- «Darwinian Medicine», Abril 4th, Escola José Cardoso Pires, Santo António dos Cavalheiros
– «Biodiversity and Extinctions», lecture
and debate at the XIV Nation Meetinf of Biology Students,
Peniche, April 16th
– «Profession: Biologist» and «Evolution
Now» - lectures at Josefa de Óbidos School, Óbidos,
May 18th
– Dramatized tour as “Charles Darwin”, at
the one year anniv. celebration of Centro
Ciência Viva do Lousal, June 30th
2010
– «Evolution Now», part of the «Developmental
Biology and Evolution» class at ISPA, April 21st and
22nd.
– «Biodiversity: Present and Past», at Lusófona
University, Lisbon, June 9th, by invitation of the BioConcil
of Students of Lusófona University (BioCEL)
- «Evolution and Development» for High School
students, March 24th
- «Evolução Agora» at High Schools
in Ferreira do Zezere (May 5th), Feijó (May 31st)
- Dramatized tours, as “Charles Darwin”, at the
Botanical Gardens of Lisbon.
- Dramatized tours as “Charles Darwin”, at the
National Museum of Natural History and its exhibit “Adventure
on Earth”.
2009 –
- «Evolutionary Biology», February 10th , invitation
from the Municipal Library of Torres Vedras.
- «Darwin, Galapagos finches and evolution in action»,
March 16th , invitation from the Rainha Dona Leonor High School,
Lisboa.
- «Darwin and Evolution», March 13th , invited
by the Henrique Nogueira High School, Torres Vedras.
- «Darwin and Evolution», May 28th , invited by
D. Carlos I Junior School, Cacem. |
